Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has raised the alarm over the continued use of an outdated operating system on the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), warning that the lapse could expose the 2027 general elections to manipulation. That operating system reached end-of-life in 2023 and no longer receives security patches. On the device’s biometric functions, Atiku said an outdated framework could end up “reducing the system’s accuracy and resilience against spoofing methods such as fingerprint and photo bypasses.” Citing the position of cybersecurity experts, Atiku said “running critical national infrastructure on an end-of-life operating system creates a broad attack surface,” and called for an independent, comprehensive audit of BVAS devices, insisting that such a step was “vital to safeguard election integrity.” The ADC candidate urged INEC to act swiftly to address the vulnerability ahead of the 2027 general elections.